While - Elixir macro for ruby traditional while - looking for feedback

Can you elaborate on these concrete use cases? I really can’t think of any situation where I wouldn’t prefer a recursive function, or the use of Enum.

    cnt = 1
    while_with cnt, cnt < 10 do
      cnt + 1
    end

    IO.puts("Current value is #{cnt}")

The hidden rebinding here is particularly alarming since it changes core expectations people have about how Elixir code works. It’s also presumably inconsistent right? What if you do:

i = 0
j = 0
    while_with i, i < 10 do
      i + 1
      j + 1
    end

Is i incremented to 10, but j not?

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